Your views in 200 words or less

August 28, 2012 1:15 pm

The 2012 presidential election is in a terrible state now, what with expectations that over a billion dollars will be spent, much of it secret donations resulting from the Citizen’s United debacle.

A couple hundred people are writing seven- to nine-figure checks to propagandize, scare, lie and smear certain candidates. If you can bear to watch TV between now and November, be my guest.

Suppressing the vote and quid pro quo between operatives trying to buy outcomes are rampant. For example, Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are shoveling in money, yet directly benefit from what Romney says he wants. It’s a huge conflict of interest, and has gone completely out of control.

Vote Republican if you like, but you’re being bulldozed into a nightmare scenario of corporatist, self-righteous, hypocritical fussbudgets. Unless you’re in the 1 percent like Romney and his cohort, I guarantee they won’t have your interests in mind. This is neither patriotic nor a reasonable answer for our beloved country.

Towards the end of President Clinton’s second term, debt clocks that had been established in various U.S. locations had to be shut down — the deficit had been eliminated and the clocks had never been set to run backwards.

They started back up again during the Bush/Cheney era. Republicans took a massive surplus and turned it into an even more massive deficit, adding the costs of two wars, two tax cuts, Medicare expansion, and a Wall Street bailout to the national charge card.

Our government is apparently for sale to the highest bidder……that would indeed be the Koch Brothers, Wall Street and that whack job in Vegas who is shoveling in money from China……….But, this letter writer is under the delusion that people can make a difference. Between voter ID laws and all this DIRTY money–the coup d’etat is in motion………..Corporate interest were in charge during the Bush years and didn’t like not being in charge anymore……….Most voters, like some of those who blog here, actually believe the massive PR con job being spoon fed to them…….I hope these crooks lose, but not counting on it……….My husband always says that the difference between a prostitute and a Republican is that the prostitute has some standards!!!!!!

No, but I am saying he has a sense of humor and very little respect for today’s Republicans……And, he was a Reagan voter…….Says this crowd are all losers and wannabe’s……..He’s right….Between Trump, Perry , Herman Cain….it was an embarassment watching those primaries……But, hey, got $10,000 you want to bet with Romney??? Might get you passage out of the clown car……

ClamatO can’t prove his manhood anywhere else–so let him rant…big boy pants and slams about women identify him……We of the mom jeans just recognize the syndrome of his type………..He and CT8 both need to explore their alternative options…………
CT8- You got a grand….Use it for rehab…….
In the meantime, think about why soooo damn much BIG money is flowing into Romney’s campaign……….My husband and I have sent Obama about $200–he still leads in SMALL donors…….Think about why all that big money wants Romney……..And, how much of YOUR prosperity got sold off to secure it???? Put on your man pants and count ClamatO……..It’s okay if you need to take your shoes off to do it…….

How can any 0bama fan mention the phrase with a straight face after “stimuless”, Solyndra, auto (UAW) bailouts, etc, etc, etc.

Quid-pro-quo = status quo with dems.

We can argue that systemic changes need to be put in place to make sure that influence is limited, within constitutional constraints, but please don’t pretend it only happens with conservatives – I can’t afford to replace my credibility meter again.

“aislander says:
Aug. 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm Lefty M.O.: First demonize anyone who disagrees with you, then, once that is accomplished, repeatedly raise the specter of the demon they themselves have created, usually from whole cloth.”

And here I thought that was Rush Limbaugh’s programming concept for the past 20 years…..

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“Free birth control, same sex marriage, killing babies in the womb”

Well….finally, a conservative has blown a gasket. Birth control and same sex marriage are solutions to abortion and yet, the CONS will complain about all three in the same phrase.

Only in America, do they have the right to say something so stupid.

Now, the other problem. No one asked for FREE birth control. Women asked that it be considered the same as libido medication by insurance companies. Hey…but…what the heck. They lie about everything else, why stop now?

Same sex marriage. There would be no problem if the conservatives could just live and let live and mind their own business, which was once a credo for real conservatives.

“killing babies in the womb”. What’s a “baby” this week? Is it the first dinner you have on the first date that ends up being a marriage and sexual union three years later? The conservatives want to make birth control illegal because it “kills” a fertilized egg….and then they want to complain about abortion. Again, real traditional conservatives would say the government has no business in women’s health care, but this crew of hypocrites that we have running around calling themselves “conservatives” have developed their one hypocritical thoughts on the subject.

A business has a budget, but the CEO has decided that they need to build more buildings to increase their power in the marketplace, so they start spending money….with no additional money coming in. Eventually, they have to start borrowing, rather than admit that the plan was wrong from the beginning.

If any business did this, the CEO would be fired immediately by the stockholders.

In 2003, George Bush decided we needed to attack Iran. We didn’t have any extra revenue to fund this adventure, so rather than raise taxes, he cut taxes and borrowed from China. Rather than admit he was wrong, he swept the debt under the rug, until the Democrats took over and his fellow Republicans could blame it on them.

The real problem – Republicans are really bad at basic math, but pretent to understand the complexity of economy.

That would be an understatement, ai, especially considering the garbage followed by “and here I thought” in just this latest example of The Hills have Lies:

Birth control and same sex marriage are solutions to abortion…

Really? So is genocide. But then the ends do justify the means in liberal la-la land.

No one asked for FREE birth control.

LMAO, even if that were true (and it’s not, just ask Planned Parentless) it wouldn’t matter because that’s exactly what 0bamacare forces upon insurance companies, as of 8/1/12.

Women asked that it be considered the same as libido medication by insurance companies.

Uhhm, Larry… even prior to 8/12 they both were – for medical conditions, not birth control or recreational use. Were men and women gaming the system? No doubt. But prior to 8/12 insurance companies had the power of discretion in both cases. Now, apparently, they only have such discretion in the case of ED meds.

Same sex marriage. There would be no problem if the conservatives could just live and let live and mind their own business…

That’s funny… I could swear that’s exactly what most conservatives want. Seems to me it’s lefties like Larry that keep moving the goal posts on social, religious, and moral issues. Legalizing gay marriage won’t be the end of the left’s social engineering efforts.

The conservatives want to make birth control illegal because it “kills” a fertilized egg….and then they want to complain about abortion.

So you’re placing the Catholic Church (among others) squarely in the “conservative” camp now? I’m sure all of those latinos 0bama’s been fondling over, and who are about to commit 0bamakari – again – will be interested to know that.

Fact is only a tiny percentage of conservatives would make birth control illegal. We just don’t want to pay for birth control for someone for whom we are not otherwise responssible unless it is prescribed by a doctor for medical reasons other than preventing pregnancy.

LarryPeeHill: The General of Generalization.

Again, real traditional conservatives would say the government has no business in women’s health care…

Uhmm, again, isn’t that exactly what most Americans are saying? And not just “women’s health care”; government has no business in most healthcare.

You’re making some persuasive points for conservatives, Larry. Have another drink.

CT8,
The problem with the GOP is the solutions they propose are the same things that caused the problem in the first place.

‘free birth control” try to be included in the an individual’s healthcare insurance and the treated the same as all other drugs and devices covered by the plan.

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